[free-sklyarov] [DMCA_discuss] Senator plans anti-piracy bill]

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Jon O . wrote:

>
> Senator plans anti-piracy copyright legislation:
>
> Consumer electronics hardware makers, including computer
> manufacturers, would be required to develop anti-piracy technology to
> be included in their products under proposed legislation from Senate
> Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C.
>
> http://currents.net/news/01/08/28/news2.html

What is at stake here is not the extension of copyright holders' powers.
No, what is at stake here is private ownership of computers.

This proposed "anti-piracy" hardware is not anti-copyright infringement
hardware.  It is universal spyware.  A few meg of which placed inside
every home and small office machine will end private ownership of
computers.

oo--JS.